The Director of facebook
Blake Ross resigning the company. He just wrote through a facebook post in these
last days. Blake Ross co –founder of Firefox came to facebook
through its acquisition Parakey. Parakey was facebook’s first acquisition
Ross worked for six years in the
facebook as an engineer in the first step and moved his way up to a product
manager and then to the Position of Director. its a funny thing to saw a caption BLADE in his facebook id card.
Here is the facebook post of
ROSS
“
Hey everyone, I’ve decided to
leave Facebook. I’m so grateful that I’ve had the opportunity to learn from and
grow with you.
I’m leaving because a Forbes
writer asked his son’s best friend Todd if Facebook was still cool and the
friend said no, and plus none of HIS friends think so either, even Leila who
used to love it, and this journalism made me reconsider the long-term viability
of the company.
Also because, after scaling a
website in a dorm room to a platform connecting a billion people in 196
countries through revolutionary high-efficiency auto-cooling datacenters, you
guys will probably never figure out how to sell a Quiznos turkey club on a
phone.
In all seriousness, even
after switching to part-time at Facebook, it’s just time for me to try new
things. I was 14 when I came to the Bay Area to work at Netscape (socially
stunted badge pic below). That’s half my life building software in a 10-mile
area of Northern California—a rather long stretch considering I spent the first
half of my life learning disciplines as varied as standing up, eating, and
getting Bar Mitzvahed.
My parting advice: Cherish
the launch days. To be surrounded by such bright people, brimming with
optimism, forgetting to eat, is a blessing. It’s the kind of manic hopefulness
that adulthood is supposed to drain out of you, and I will miss it most.
Launch day is also a great
day for Legal to find out what you’re launching.
Guys, thanks for everything.
You’ve all brought a lot of joy to this stone cold heart.”
“
